Below The Beltway

Good morning and welcome to the fifth Carnival of the Magnolias, the carnival of the Southern Blog Federation, a group of bloggers residing in the Southern U.S. The purpose of the carnival is pretty simple:
The purpose of this carnival is to highlight the best and brightest posts of the week written by southern bloggers [...]

As Stephen Green said in his post last night, man I’ve got nothin’.
Perhaps its pre-holiday fatigue. Perhaps its blogger’s fatigue. Whatever it is, I sat in front of the computer this morning to write something and came up with……bupkus.
And to add to that, technical difficulties have delayed the Carnival of the Magnolias until sometime this [...]

Apologies once again, but it appears that this may be all that I’ll be producing today.
After recovering from a great party over at a neighbor’s house last night, Kellie and I spent the better part of today completing Christmas shopping, mostly stuff I still need to buy.
I am also working on pulling together this week’s [...]

I’ve been watching The West Wing since Season 1 and one of my favorite characters has always been Leo McGarry, who first served as Chief of Staff to President Josiah Bartlett and, in a move I still consider improbable, was nominated to be the Vice-Presidential nominee to Jimmy Smitt’s Matt Santos. I’ve also been [...]

Much has been written in the past twenty-four hours about yesterday’s report that the NSA was spying on Americans in the United States in the wake of the September 11th attacks, activity which President Bush admitted today he personally authorized.
Michelle Malkin seems to be leading the group of conservative bloggers who are more outraged over [...]

David Friedman suggests that the Democratic Party could find electoral success in trying to steal the votes of libertarian-leaning Republicans away from the GOP.
As Friedman points out, libertarian Republicans and the Democratic Party find themselves in equally unfortunate positions.
Libertarians still tend to identify with the Republican party. Save for historical reasons, it is [...]

Yesterday’s snow/ice storm may have been a dud, but the rain we got froze overnight, which made the road’s an utter disaster this morning. My commute from our home to the Prince William County Courthouse in Manassas normally takes about 25-30 minutes. Today, it took almost an hour and a half.
The road’s are fine [...]

Via Eric’s Grumbles comes news that David Friedman, currently of Santa Clara University Law School and previously of the University of Chicago Law School, has started his own blog.
I also learned recently that Reason columnist Cathy Young has a blog as well.
You can bet I’ll be adding both to the blogroll soon.

Well, not really, but another winter storm is set to hit the D.C. area today
Fellow Washingtonians, as I said last week, abandon your cars now.

I’ve added several more blogs that I read on a regular basis to the blogroll as of this morning.
Capital Freedom is a fellow member of Life, Liberty & Property where you’ll find some excellent, stright-forward writing on economic and political freedom. I’ve also added fellow LLP’ers Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey and Liberty Corner
Cato Unbound is [...]